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What freedom means to me...

When we spoke to some children in the age group of 8 to 14, we were surprised to learn the different meanings they gave to that one word 'freedom.' Read on ...

Getting Bored - Read This

Read this if you are bored and have nothing to do and can't even think of doing anything. Read on ...

Elephants and Leopards

A visit to Bandipur National Park brings children in contact with nature and animals, bringing them closer together. Read on ...

The Final Verdict

When she gave birth to her dearest child, Mother Earth did not think that this child would be a cause of her slow but sure destruction. Read on ...

Children in Harmful Professions

Talking about sensitivity, children are as sensitive as adults to life around them. Read on ...

The Great Barrier Reef

A brief note about Australia's Great Coral Reef. Read on ...

My Ambition

Some want to become doctors, some engineers but here is someone who wants to become an egyptologist. Now what is that? Read on ...

My Trip to Nainital

A class four student of St. Joseph's Intermediate College at Allahabad recounts his trip to Nainital with his family. Read on ...

Rani

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Sister

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Take Pictures Without A Camera

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Put your pointer fingers and thumbs together so they form a rectangle.
Now go “click!”
You just took a picture.
Can you imagine it? That’s what it will be like to take a picture with the Ubi-Camera, now being developed by a group of researchers at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, a university in Japan.

The Ubi-Camera is a tiny rectangular box that fits over your thumb.
For the viewfinder (the thing you would normally look through on a camera to see what you want to take a picture of) you simply form a rectangle with your fingers and thumbs.
To take a picture, you press down on the box. Click! You’ve taken a photo—without a “camera.”

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Take Pictures Without A Camera
Put your pointer fingers and thumbs together so they form a rectangle.
Now go “click!”
You just took a picture.
Can you imagine it? That’s what it will be like to take a picture with the Ubi-Camera, now being developed by a group of researchers at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, a university in Japan.
The Ubi-Camera is a tiny rectangular box that fits over your thumb.
For the viewfinder (the thing you would normally look through on a camera to see what you want to take a picture of) you simply form a rectangle with your fingers and thumbs.
To take a picture, you press down on the box. Click! You’ve taken a photo—without a “camera.”
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Asthma (say: az-muh) is a condition that affects a person's airways, which are also called breathing tubes or bronchial (say: brong-kee-ul) tubes. These tubes lead from the windpipe, or trachea (say: tray-kee-uh), into the lungs.
For most kids, breathing is simple: They breathe in through their noses or mouths and the air goes into the windpipe. From there, it travels through the airways and into the lungs. But for kids with asthma, breathing can be a lot more difficult because their airways are very sensitive.
An asthma flare-up, which some people call an asthma attack or episode, happens when a person's airways get swollen and narrower and it becomes a lot harder for air to get in and out of the lungs. Sometimes the swollen airways produce extra mucus, which makes things pretty sticky, so it's easy to see why it's hard to breathe.

In between flare-ups, a kid's breathing can be totally normal or seem that way. But during a flare-up, it can feel like the person is breathing through a straw. A kid with asthma may wheeze (a whistling sound when he or she breathes), cough, and feel tightness in the chest.
An asthma flare-up can get worse and worse if a kid doesn't use asthma medicine. After an asthma flare-up, the airways almost always return to the way they were before, although it can take several days.

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